Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Oppenheimer’s Legacy in New Mexico
Description: NMiF Senior Producer Lou DiVizio opens the show with some headlines from the early part of the week, including progress for a group of New Mexicans fighting to receive compensation for the devastating impacts of nuclear testing beginning during the Manhattan Project.
After the release of the film Oppenheimer, Gene Grant asks The Line Opinion Panel about the legacies of nuclear testing in New Mexico and whether the film should have included an examination of the devastating impacts of the scientists’ work here.
Tina Cordova is the founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium and ha...